Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
From one of the world's foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis
'The book's structure is bound by two constraints: the brevity of the period covered - the first 50 years of Freud's life (he lived until he was 83) - and his JewishnessBut, as with Shakespeare working within the strictures of the sonnet form, Phillips presses these potential limits to acute and dazzling effect.'-Salley Vickers, The Daily Telegraph -- Salley Vickers The Daily Telegraph '[T]his short, meditative succeeds superbly in delineating the culture and thought processes that lay behind his work.'-Ian Critchley, The Sunday Times -- Ian Critchley The Sunday Times 'More a biographical essay than a comprehensive biography, since it ends with Freud aged 50, this beautifully lucid book is jargon-free and richly informative, which is hardly surprising since Phillips was the series editor of The New Penguin Freud.'-Helen Meany, Irish Times -- Helen Meany The Irish Times "As a writer, Mr. Phillips specializes in paradoxes and antitheses - almost all of which he puts forth thoughtfully and gracefully ... An intelligent and well-written book."-Steven Marcus, New York Times -- Steven Marcus New York Times "An audacious book... Its implicit goal, never stated but always clear, is to help us salvage the best parts of Freud's work while leaving behind the rest-the outmoded theories and unwieldy jargon that make Freud a caricature rather than an intriguing thinker."-Joshua Rothman, New Yorker Blog -- Joshua Rothman New Yorker Blog "Clear and engaging."-Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews "A compact intellectual biography... Phillips often illuminatingly reads Freud's thinking against the background of his life circumstances... Probably more than any other psychoanalytically informed writer, Phillips has continued to enrich this mode of thought by literary means, through sheer force of style."-Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle "Phillips excels at re-describing concepts and experiences whose meanings appear settled, stale or too technical."-Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle -- Kenneth Baker San Francisco Chronicle "Telling a great story gracefully and with the clarity it deserves, in all its layers, Adam Phillips demonstrates that Freud remains central to the urgent questions of modernism- social, political and cultural, as well as psychological. I will be thinking about specific sentences in this book for a long time."-Robert Pinsky -- Robert Pinsky "Adam Phillips is, I believe, one of the most engaging writers in the world on analysis and the analytic movement ... Phillips's own love of the beauty and power of psychoanalysis here serves both him and the reader wonderfully well."-Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review -- Vivian Gornick New York Times Book Review 'Becoming Freud offers more than enough proof that Phillips is the ideal author of a book about Freud.'-Talitha Stevenson, Financial Times -- Talitha Stevenson Financial Times
Adam Phillips is former Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice. His most recent book is One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300158663 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300158661 |
| Title | Becoming Freud |
| Author | Adam Phillips |
| Series | Jewish Lives |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Book of the Year) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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